Survey on Possibilities of Child Harm & Exploitation Due to Family Vloggers

Being a YouTube celebrity has become a money-making trend for a while now. Amongst that, vlogging is the most common type of content. Vlogging is a term that refers to the practice of creating and sharing any type of video content or vlogs online. For instance, typically created and shared by individuals on platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

The majority of this content involves recording and documenting daily lives and the lives of vloggers and their families, including children, and sharing them with anyone who wants to keep up with them.

To name a few family vloggers turned celebrities include The Kardashians, The SlyFox Family, DaddyOFive, The Ace Family, and The Bee Family, with the list going on.

Child’s Privacy and Online Image

TikTok star Zoe Laverne was heavily scrutinized for selling “exclusive” photos of her newborn baby, Emersyn, for $15 to her 2.7 million Instagram followers.

This incident is only the most recent of the many cases where family vloggers are ready to put their minor’s privacy and online image at stake. By the time the child grows up to search for themselves on Google, they find their personal details, school records, and achievements already available for public viewership, much to their shock.

Promoting Digital Child Labour

Family vlogging implies that all members of the family, including minors, take part in the content created— like the ‘Bucket List Family’ videos.

In the United States, working hours and the child’s earnings are controlled by the California Child Actor’s Bill. This law ensures that children working in entertainment positions will have their earnings, or a part of them, retained until they are legally adults and can manage them themselves.

Similarly, in the United Kingdom, children are not allowed to perform for more than six consecutive days, and children aged five to nine should not perform continuously for more than two and a half hours a day.

This, however, cannot be applied to social media platforms where the parents are responsible for the content, its revenue, and the stature that comes from it.

The Question Of Morality

Putting up your child’s pictures for sale, as is alleged with Zoe Laverne, or pushing your child’s mental and emotional thresholds for the “shock factor” as happened with DaddyOFive and The Slyfox Family or making your minor swim with the great white sharks surely sparks the dubious ends of ethics and morality. If things were only about making the next video a better clickbait than the one before, what does it all end with?

Therefore, Real Research, an online survey app, launched a survey seeking opinions on the matter.

Hurry and answer the survey on possibilities of child harm & exploitation due to family vloggers on the Real Research app from January 02, 2023. Afterward, you will receive 55 TNCs as a reward.